❤️HER NAME IS: PHOEBE HANSJUK!❤️

Phoebe Hansjuk wanted to leave her partner. In fact, she’d left him multiple times in the last week of her life. But he continually coerced her back.
On December 2, 2010, the 24-year-old swallowed some tablets and drank some alcohol.
That evening Phoebe slid down a 12-storey rubbish chute. She did not survive her injuries.
Police, inexplicably, ruled Phoebe’s death non-suspicious, saying she entered the chute of her own volition.
The investigation was marred from the start.
They did not check Hampel’s computer, dust for fingerprints on glasses left on the kitchen bench, check CCTV in all of the building, document footprints near her unit or analyse blood near the scene.
Phoebe’s fingerprints were not on the chute and there were many other inconsistencies.
After an inquest, the coroner ruled her death an accident.
A media outlet re-enacted Phoebe’s death, proving it was extremely difficult to have done this on her own.
Many Australian women die in suspicious circumstances every year, but their deaths are ruled suicide or accident by police and local coroners.
Often these women have survived coercive abuse and/or physical violence.
Their families face an uphill battle getting authorities to examine their deaths with a lens that takes into account the behaviour of the person who controlled or abused them.
This is the fight Phoebe’s mum Natalie Hansjuk has faced for 15 years.
Natalie wants you to know there’s more to Phoebe’s story than the circumstances of her death.

“She was a strong and energetic baby,” Natalie says of Pheobe, who was born in the Chinese Year of the Tiger (1986).
Happy, affectionate, imaginative and playful, the youngster was adored by Natalie, her dad Len, and her little brothers Tom and Nikolai.
“She had a wicked sense of humour and an almost insatiable appetite for socialising,” Natalie says.
“She was passionate and had a fierce sense of justice. She wanted to travel to India to do aid work. She was a born writer and poet.”
Phoebe loved climbing, martial arts, nature, and spending time with her.
The gregarious young woman’s life was rough at times, but she always worked hard to be her best self.
“Although she’s portrayed as a person with issues relating to depression and alcohol problems, she was so much more,” Natalie says.
“The times she struggled were only ‘times’ like every human – sometimes life is challenging. She was strong, she was young and she was vulnerable.”
Natalie says Phoebe’s partner caused her great distress and she was doing her best to find a path out.
“She chose a relationship with someone much older, powerful, and very controlling,” Natalie says.
“Her loyalty and fear of that person resulted in her untimely demise.”
While they were exceedingly close, the mum and daughter faced their own challenges but Natalie refused to give up on Phoebe.
“She was special because of who she was and that she was my daughter,” she says.
“I loved her with all my heart,” she says.
Every aspect of this journey has been incredibly hard for Natalie and all who love Phoebe.
“We miss her every day of our lives,” she says.
“She was the funny one, the loyal confidant for her brothers and the bright light in any room.”
Despite the roadblocks from authorities, Natalie will not give up on finding the truth.
“I believe that Phoebe’s death was not a result of her climbing into a rubbish chute in a deluded state,” she says.
“I believe that someone put her into the chute to dispose of her.
“We have had a coroner’s finding we do not agree with, but we are unable to challenge because of the laws of appeal in Victoria.
“All we can hope is that someone who has further information or evidence will come forward and allow the case to be reopened so that we can finally obtain justice for Phoebe and the truth for ourselves.
❤️PHOEBE HANSJUK MATTERS!❤️

*If you know anything about Phoebe’s death please call 000 or contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000

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